254 STATE rOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



SOUTH HAVEN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[The on]y record wc have of the proceedings of this Society is a few papers 

 sent by J. G. llamsdel], secretary of the society, which we append below. — 

 Secretary.] 



NEEDS OF THE SOUTH IIAYEN POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



13 Y NOR^AK PHILLIPS. 



First. We need active and efficient officers, who will attend all of the meet- 

 ings of the Society and take a lively interest in its deliberations and discussions. 



Second. We need pleasant and attractive rooms wherein to hold our meet- 

 ings ; the ladies beins: members of the Societv and invited to meet with us and 

 participate in its discussions. 



Third. We need one or more good essays on i)ractical Pomology every 

 month. 



Fourth. We need a wide-awake monthly publication, and every fact or item 

 valuable for a fruit-grower to know should be published to the world. 



Fifth. AVe need to have every essay read in this Society full of facts, short, 

 and to the point. 



Sixth. We need a strawberry fair and festival every year in June ; and a show 

 of fruit, flowers, and vegetables in September; premiums or no premiums. 



Seventh. AVe need to put the same energetic and well-directed persevering 

 labor in our business as would be essential to success in any other calling. 



Eighth. We need to search diligently for the cause and cure of that dread 

 disease in the peach trees, known as the yellows. 



Ninth. We need united action in preventing the spread of the yellows ; in 

 the destruction of the curculio and codling moth ; in the preservation of all 

 useful birds; in keeping up the fertility of our soils; in honestly putting up 

 every package of fruit ; and in patronizing none but responsible houses in sel- 

 linsr the same. 



Tenth. We need to be content with our calling as fruit-growers, when we 

 take into account our moderate climate, our fertile soil, our location as to 

 market, our healthful position beside this grand old lake, and the intel- 

 ligence of our people. 



Eleventh. We need to remember the lessons we have learned in this Society, 

 and by experience, and in the future strive to make our lives and homes as 

 beautiful as are the works of Nature. 



Twelfth. We need to beautify our homes with lawns, trees, and flowers, and 

 make them profitable by surrounding them with orchards, vineyards, and 

 plantations of various kinds of berries ; and withal, ornament our streets with 

 trees. For there is in the mind a power or faculty for the appreciation of the 

 beautiful ; let us cultivate that faculty, adding grace to beauty, ever moving 

 onward and upward, until we are called to lay down our implements on earth 

 and enter the house not made with hands eternal in the heavens, and receive 

 that welcome plaudit, well done good and faithful servant. 



